Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-36024
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function.
osv:CVE-2020-36024
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:20.418822384Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html",
"https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016"
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"published_at": "2023-08-11T14:15:11.577+00:00"
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